critical thinking

I don't mean to minimize the severity of the incident here, but the account of it by those who were on the trolley border on the hilarious. If you need to start this Monday out on a laugh, this ought to do it for you.

Holy cow - a lawyer with a conscience?

The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow critical thinking in schools with respect to evolution. Look for the left to oppose this with both barrels. After all, critical thinking destroys evolution. Come to think of it, critical thinking destroys liberalism.

Bruce Barry highlights Richard Lawson's utter confusion of the concept of conflict of interest, effectively slicing and dicing the flaws in the latter's logic at PiTW.

I've even, as they say, bought the T-shirt. I am solidly endorsing U.S. Senator Barack Obama, not just in his quest for the Democratic nomination, but in hopes that he will be the next President of the United States.

As I am a politically independent, educated, (somewhat lower-) middle-class white male in the South, I'm not sure a statistician would have been able to peg my decision. Tough. I relish being an outrider.

Paul Johnson, in his book Modern Times, notes on page 342 speaking of Adolph Hitler:

‘…blood purity’, as he put it Mien Kampf, ‘is a thing that the Jew preserves better than any people on earth’. The Germans, on the other hand, had been ‘poisoned’. That was why they lost the First World War. Even he was poisoned: this is why he occasionally made mistakes- ‘all of us suffer from the sickness of mixed, corrupt blood’.

Just wanted to document the ever increasing number of conservative religious authoritarians that have deleted my comments, not because of any vulgarity or insults, but just because my posts contained legitimate information that challenged their beliefs. These are people who say they stand 'for the truth.' Instead, what they really stand for is a narrow view of the world that they guard from debate and discussion with abject denial.

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